Philo Ventures — a family of companies spanning venture building, real estate, and hospitality. We create enduring value through bold ideas and disciplined execution.
About the role
You’ll own vendor management for Philo’s Engineering and Data teams, with cloud and infrastructure costs as the top priority. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8–10+ years in vendor management, technology procurement, or a closely related role, with most of that time spent on technology and cloud vendors
- Hands-on experience managing a relationship with a major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure), including reading usage and billing data and recommending commitment or pricing changes
- Strong knowledge of technology products and categories, enough to compare vendors on substance and make a confident recommendation
- A track record of negotiating pricing, terms, and SLAs that produced measurable savings or better terms
- Experience running contracts through legal review, including NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs
- Financial fluency. You've owned or managed vendor budgets, can build a cost model, and know what's realistic to spend
More about this role
At Philo, we’re a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented — in short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted native app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics, while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback experiences.
Philo is hiring its first dedicated Senior Technology Vendor Manager to own how we choose, contract, and get value from the technology vendors and partners that power our product and platform. Today, vendor relationships are spread across teams. You'll bring them under one clear owner, with a sharp eye on cost and a strong point of view on which tools and partners we should be using.
Technology is our largest and most complex area of spend, so it's where you'll spend most of your time: AWS, video transcoding, CDN, billing, and business intelligence. You'll be comfortable digging into AWS billing, Savings Plans, and...
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